I was a god in the 18th century

In England in the eighteenth century, although the law defaulted to primogeniture, that is, inheritance of noble titles (if any) was also limited to inheritance of real estate such as manors, real estate, and other assets.

However, if the father leaves a clear will in a family with multiple sons, it is not impossible to change the heir.

It is not without those disobedient eldest sons who were deprived of their inheritance rights.

When Owen's grandfather let his eldest son inherit the villa, he asked him to take more care of his second son, but he obviously failed to do so.

Now that Fukuoka Villa has been transferred to Owen's hands, it can be regarded as a turn of events.

Owen called the housekeeper Lim and asked about Xia Qingdai entering her aunt's room to see a doctor just now.

Lim opened her eyes wide and told Xia Qingdai's miraculous medical treatment methods in detail, and couldn't help but sigh at how powerful Miss Biao was.

Owen had known that Xia Qingdai could cure diseases. When she first appeared, she saved a child with fever, saved his cousin in London, and treated many diseases for a group of lower-class people, and was called a miracle doctor.

It's not surprising that he would treat his aunt now.

As for Xia Qingdai's treatment method that Lim mentioned, it was the same as what Irving saw with his own eyes when he was in London, and there were a lot of changes.

He had never seen Xia Qingdai doing massage or cupping before - of course, Xia Qingdai hadn't started to formally study Chinese medicine at that time, how could she!
After asking about the situation, Owen went back to his room to get ready to sleep.

The matter of Old Owen and his daughter is not too important. He has many other things to be busy with tomorrow.

In addition to the daily affairs of the village, he also had to sign a wool sales contract with a wool merchant. Spring is here and the wool is ready for sale.

In addition, there is one more important thing to do, which is to deal with the guy on the farm who is cheating.

The results of the interrogation before the barbecue party started have been concluded, allowing Owen to find out in time the ungrateful farm servant who dared to tamper with the forage of Xia Qingdai's horse.

This guy confessed that he took bribes from the servants of Mr. Anderson's family to tamper with the fodder that Xia Qingdai's horse ate that day.

Those poisonous mushroom powders were given by the other party.

Anderson is also a country squire in this neighborhood. He has three sons and one daughter in his family.

His servant came to Fucui Villa for no reason and attacked Xia Qingdai's horse, with suspicious motives.

Although Owen is unwilling to make more speculations without evidence, this is really a good inference.

Because Mr. Anderson and his three sons did not have any motive to attack Xia Qingdai. Only Miss Anderson, who often flattered him, might be jealous of her.

Although this is a very unreasonable thing, Irving has to admit that there are many such unreasonable things.

In his several months as a police officer, he had dealt with many similar disputes for low-level peasant women.

A few days ago, a village girl caused public outrage because she wore a beautiful silk skirt that did not conform to her class status during a church service. His shirt was torn apart by a group of peasant women, and he ran home from the church crying and naked.

Because it was a group fight, Owen finally fined the first person who made the move ten pence as a lesson.

Ten pence was nothing to Owen, but to the peasant woman it was a painful sum of money. For reference, in the crime of grand larceny, stealing only twelve pennies is punishable by death.

But if the fine is spread equally among all those involved in the group fight, it will not have much of a deterrent effect.

It is better to cut off one of the fingers than to injure ten of them. Only by making someone feel pain can we truly kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

It is easy for Owen to punish a peasant woman who beats someone out of jealousy, and it is not difficult to judge a peasant servant who is ungrateful for money.

But for the suspected mastermind, Ms. Anderson, he had no choice for the time being because the other party was not within his jurisdiction. Mr. Anderson himself is the Sheriff of his area, and the only precious daughter in his family naturally does not have the turn to be interrogated by Owen.

However, Irving will not let this matter go, and we all have a long way to go.

Although he can't touch the Anderson family members for the time being, Owen can still easily deal with the farmers on his own farm.

He has sent people to imprison the man in the farm warehouse and will try his crimes tomorrow.

In England in the eighteenth century, crimes were divided into three categories: treason, felonies and misdemeanors.

The first two local magistrates do not have the power to judge. All they can do is pretrial, and then triage in the circuit court, quarterly court and small court. The final trial is done by the judges of these courts.

Because treason and felony crimes may be punished by death.

As for misdemeanors, it is the Sheriff who has the final say. He can be severely punished or let go lightly.

The man's manipulation of the fodder for Xia Qingdai's mount did not cause serious consequences, so it was not counted as a serious crime such as murder, suicide, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, and theft. It was only a misdemeanor.

But Owen did not intend to let him go lightly, but decided to put him in a correctional institution for a few years to atone for his sins.

The Correctional Institution is a British institution that specializes in punishing lazy people and homeless people. Sheriffs generally like to detain prisoners who have committed misdemeanors here.

The refugees, lazy people and prisoners imprisoned here are forced to do hard labor.

To attack Xia Qingdai is to attack him. Irving will not be the least bit merciful towards those who betray him.

He didn't care how the other child's family would live after being locked up in a correctional institution.

This person had received so many favors from him and Xia Qingdai in the cold winter last year. He had been given enough food to fill his stomach, but he could be easily bribed. What's the use of keeping him?

Only when rewards and punishments are clear can you manage your subordinates well. This is what he learned when he was an officer.

It's the same now as a village owner and a peace officer.

Naturally, Xia Qingdai didn't know about the interrogation that took place in the castle, nor did she know how Owen would handle it.

Xia Qingdai never cared about or inquired about Owen's daily management affairs in the villa. There are too many trivial things that happen every day, and she doesn't have the energy to gossip.

After all, she is now a prospective college entrance examination candidate and time is very tight.

After taking a shower, Xia Qingdai took her mobile phone and went out to buy medicine for the patient.

She mainly goes to the Chinese medicine pharmacy to buy Chinese medicine, and then she will calculate the amount for the little man in proportion.

It's a pity that there are no Chinese medicine shops in the UK, otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome.

Xia Qingdai prescribed medicine for old Mrs. Irving to treat wind and heat: three qian of Schizonepeta, half of mint, three qian of almond, half of raw licorice, three qian of Pediculus, two qian of Platycodon, plus half of tangerine peel.

She wrote the prescription herself and then went directly to the Chinese medicine store to get the medicine.

The medicine seller asked her about it, but she only said that someone in her family was sick and didn't like Western medicine. She only believed in Chinese medicine, so she came to try it.

She only bought a dose of medicine and gave it to old Mrs. Irving in Lilliput. She could give it to countless portions!

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